Josephine Assmus

Josephine Assmus is a Political Scientist and doctoral researcher with an interdisciplinary background in European Studies and (Central) Eastern European Regional Studies. Before joining the InIIS for a PhD position in 2019, she studied in Magdeburg, Warsaw, Glasgow and Cracow and worked for the Heinrich Böll Foundation Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart. At InIIS, Josephine Assmus is part of the research project “Rebalancing the Enlarged Single Market” (RESiM), which is conducted in cooperation with the University of Salzburg. Her main areas of research are Labour Mobility, European Governance and European Integration – more specifically, questions of enforcing labour rights of atypically employed workers in the cases of Poland and Germany.

Curriculum Vitae

Since 11/2019
Research Associate at InIIS, University of Bremen, in the DFG project "Rebalancing the Enlarged Single Market" (RESiM).

04/2018 - 11/2019
Project coordinator for the Heinrich Böll Foundation Network in the project "Shared Spaces: European Dialogues on Public Spaces".

Training

09/2015 - 10/2017 
International Master: Russian, Central and East European Studies (IMRCEES) & M.A. European Studies.
University of Glasgow & Jagiellonian University Krakow
Master Thesis: Euroscepticism and Othering in the EU Migration Crisis 2015/16: Analysing Patterns of Discourse in the European Parliament

10/2011 - 08/2015
B.A. European Studies
Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg

Academic year 2013/14 at the University of Warsaw
Bachelor Thesis: Frameworks of Political Protest in Hybrid Regimes - The Russian Federation after the Duma Elections 2011

Languages

German, English, Polish, Spanish, French (basics)